- Spain: Police search headquarters of PM Sanchez’s ruling party
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“Spanish police are searching the headquarters of the ruling Socialist Party as part of an ongoing investigation into possible financial wrongdoing, the Civil Guard said on Wednesday. The raid on the office in central Madrid is another blow to the party of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, whose Socialists have been hammered by a series of corruption scandals. The Civil Guard said the police were under judicial orders to find material relevant to a National Court probe into accusations of corruption against former party members and other individuals.” (05/27/26)
- Biden sues US DOJ over planned release of conversations with biographer
Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“Former U.S. president Joe Biden sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday, seeking to bar the release of audio recordings and transcripts of private conversations with his biographer in 2016 and 2017. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington D.C., comes ahead of the department’s planned June 15 release of the materials to the U.S. House judiciary committee and the conservative Heritage Foundation. The foundation sought them after they were used as part of then-special counsel Robert Hur’s 2023 investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents. Hur declined to bring criminal charges.” (05/26/26)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/biden-justice-dept-lawsuit-recordings-interview-9.7213289
- Hungary: Parliament Approves Law to Maintain Membership in International Criminal Court
Source: US News & World Report
“Hungary’s parliament on Wednesday approved legislation to maintain the country’s membership in the International Criminal Court, reversing a 2025 decision made by the government of Viktor Orban. Orban’s government decided to withdraw from the ICC, saying the court had become ‘political.’ Current Prime Minister Peter Magyar, who ousted Orban in parliamentary elections last month, pledged to halt the withdrawal process and keep Hungary in the ICC. The International Criminal Court was set up more than two decades ago to prosecute those accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Orban’s government announced the withdrawal in April 2025, shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Hungary for a state visit in a rare trip abroad in defiance of an ICC arrest warrant.” (05/27/26)
- US regime publicly confesses to 194th maritime murder
Source: United Press International
“The U.S. military has [murdered] another person in its latest strike on a suspected drug-trafficking boat in the Trump administration’s deadly crackdown on alleged narcotics trafficking in international waters. The Tuesday strike was the 58th publicly disclosed by U.S. Southern Command in President Donald Trump’s monthslong campaign, which has now [murdered] at least 194 people.” (05/27/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/05/27/SOUTHCOM/3161779867636/
- Palestine: Israeli regime claims it killed head of Hamas military wing
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Israel says it has killed Mohammed Odeh, the leader of Hamas’s military wing in Gaza, in an air strike in the northern part of the strip, as a fragile ‘ceasefire’ comes under growing strain. Israeli authorities said on Wednesday that Odeh was killed in an attack the previous day in Gaza City. There was no immediate comment from the Palestinian group. Odeh, a former Hamas intelligence chief, reportedly succeeded Izz al-Din al-Haddad as the head of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian group, after the latter was killed in an Israeli strike earlier this month, although Hamas did not officially confirm the appointment.” (05/27/26)
- TN: Homeowner fires on, misses intruder
Source: Fox 13 News
“A Hyde Park man living in fear because his house had been broken into before opened fire on a home intruder early Tuesday morning, police said. … Officers arrived to find the suspect — later identified as Simeon Pratcher — laying ‘face down’ in one of the home’s bedrooms, police said. … The homeowner told investigators that he was in his living room when he heard someone entering his home. He went to one of his bedrooms and saw an intruder in the doorframe, leading the homeowner to fire two shots, MPD said. No one was struck by the gunfire. The homeowner told MPD that his home had been broken into three times, adding that he felt like he ‘had to protect himself.'” (05/26/26)
- Face the facts: China isn’t leaving Latin America anytime soon
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Jorge Heine“Countries across the region have strong economic incentives for working with Beijing. Washington should try to compete rather than coerce.” (05/27/26)
- Empire with a Humanitarian Face: Democrats Rebrand
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Matt Wolfson“American political successions in recent years happen counterintuitively: implicit hand-offs between two nominally opposing sides. This strange reality is where we derive our notion of ‘the uniparty’ and the media its notion of ‘partisanship.’ Through the ‘partisan’ lens favored by media, our politics appears divided between a party, the Republicans, in hock to Israel, the ‘big five’ weapons contractors, real estate, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley; and a party, the Democrats, in hock to powerful ‘progressive’ or ‘Left’ nonprofits like ActBlue, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Center for American Progress, and the Open Society Foundations. But the ‘uniparty’ theory of the case shared by many politically disenfranchised Americans is a more accurate read of our political reality.” (05/27/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/empire-with-a-humanitarian-face-democrats-rebrand
- A Quagmire of Trump’s Own Making
Source: The Dispatch
by Mike Nelson“The president who sold his leadership as a unitary executive seems frustrated by the results of trying to fight a war that way.” (05/27/26)
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-iran-quagmire-allies-voters-congress/
- Safetyism has made society terrified of disagreement
Source: spiked
by Stefano Gujon“As ‘safe spaces’ on Western university campuses continue to multiply, it has become clear that institutions designed to defend free thought are now breeding grounds for illiberal conformism. Higher education no longer trains students to grapple with dissent. It teaches them to avoid intellectual conflict at all costs. This conformism has not been limited to the lecture hall. It has spread outwards into companies, the media space and public life.” (05/27/26)
- Trump’s Pottery Barn War
Source: Antiwar.com
by Travis Lynch“When Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that any agreement with Iran must be ‘great and meaningful,’ or there would be no agreement at all, he appeared to be drawing a wall between himself and Barack Obama’s nuclear deal. He wanted to make clear that even if negotiations were underway, they would be Trumpian negotiations: tougher, more forceful, and the ‘exact opposite’ of an agreement he had spent years denouncing as a symbol of weakness. But that statement revealed less strength than contradiction. A president who once treated Obama’s diplomacy with Iran as appeasement now has to sell his own diplomacy as victory.” (05/27/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/travis_lynch/2026/05/26/trumps-pottery-barn-war
- The Importance of Free Speech in American Public Junior High and High Schools
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Ronald Den Otter“Unlike concerns about censorship on college campuses, which have received a lot of media attention, when guest speakers are disinvited or shouted down, few people care much about the extent to which school authorities may suppress student speech in a public junior high or high school. The assumption is that due to their age and relative immaturity, most of what they contribute to the marketplace of ideas at their school will have little, if any, value. Furthermore, the primary mission of a school is to educate its students, and student speech can be disruptive or distracting. As such, it may appear to be obvious that teenagers should not be able to exercise the same free speech rights that college students may exercise. However, position strikes me as harder to defend than most people acknowledge.” (05/26/26)
- Use AI This Election
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander“I’m not saying AI is superintelligent or can decide better than you can. I’m saying that if you — like me — spend an hour or so doing research before voting on local seats, AI can aid that research very effectively. And if you don’t do that research — because you weren’t willing to waste an hour on it before — AI makes it so much faster that you might want to start.” (05/26/26)
- Casualties of war
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton“Yesterday, we commemorated those men and women of the United States who lost their lives prematurely in the various wars fought by and in the United States of America. But it is important to remember, and commemorate (mourn) those other than the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines – and their civilian support forces – who died. There is no war, whether declared or not, whether internal or external, that does not have many more casualties. And almost always, in external wars, it is the enemy who suffers the greater number of dead. And the civilians, not the support forces, but the ordinary civilians. Let us also pause to remember those, of whatever nation, with whatever stake in the outcome of the war or whatever the conflict is called.” (05/26/26)
- Firing More People Won’t Make America Healthy Again
Source: Independent Institute
by Raymond J March“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came into office with three ambitious goals: radical transparency, improved national health, and rebuilding trust in America’s public health agencies. More than a year in, it seems he has only one tool for the job — firing people. Lots of them.” (05/26/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/05/26/firing-make-america-healthy-again/
- Why Has Trump Stopped Selling Weapons to Taiwan?
Source: Reason
by Matthew Petti“The administration is avoiding conflict with China to focus on war in the Middle East. Taiwan’s democracy hangs in the balance.” (05/26/26)
https://reason.com/2026/05/26/why-has-trump-stopped-selling-weapons-to-taiwan/
- Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 05/26/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“Iran Says US Violated Ceasefire, Russia To Target Ukraine’s Underground Bunkers, and More.” (05/26/26)
- Nonzero, 05/26/26
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“The Pope Takes On AI | Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov.” (05/26/26)
- The Kyle Anzalone Show, 05/26/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Prof. Joe Terwilliger on Getting ‘Loomered’ and the Potential for a Deal with North Korea.” (05/26/26)